We are delighted to begin work on a new @ClydeWetlands mapping project on behalf of local authority partners! Study outputs will underpin the creation and enhancement of wetlands across the Glasgow City Region in a targeted way as part of wetland #naturenetworks... 💧🐸🌿

Growing places... a new nature and climate friendly vision for Glasgow City Region has been launched. Tree planting in East Dunbartonshire includes land in Bishopbriggs and Torrance. For more info, visit gcvgreennetwork.gov.uk and clydeclimateforest.co.uk/projects/targe…

Our jam packed spring newsletter is out now! With a peatlands film and project update, and our first blog of the year on the evolution of the Green Network in planning. Don't miss it!! mailchi.mp/ed39ba17bd90/s…

#NoMowMay: With an estimated 23 million gardens in the UK, the potential for better managed grassland habitat – even if it’s just a small patch of lawn – is immense!🌼 🌱 🐝 Read our full press release here 👉 bit.ly/3MVAv1I

It's May, which means more brilliant butterflies and moths to spot in your gardens and local green spaces! 🌷🦋 Discover more species with tips on how you can help them by signing up to our monthly enewsletter 👉 butrfli.es/2Td2KQg #SaveButterflies #MothsMatter

The GCV Green Network team got lucky with the weather yesterday! The pic shows a soon to be contiguous strip of #speciesrichgrassland in eastern Port Glasgow, that will sit strategically within a Grassland #NatureNetwork 👏Project partners Green Action Trust Inverclyde Council #pollinators 🦋

Out of 115 species of bees in Scotland, at least 4 of which are now thought to be extinct (info from BuglifeScotland). You can show your support for your local bee population by letting your lawn grow with #NoMowMay and growing flora that support them. #WorldBeeDay

Great to do some grassland surveying yesterday at East Kilbride with South Lanarkshire Council Councillor Kirsten Robb & Jackie from Incredibly Wild East Kilbride. We saw the results that simple changes to mowing regimes from the council are already bringing to 8 sites in the St Leonards area🦋🌱🐝

South Lanarkshire Council Councillor Kirsten Robb GCV Green Network ClydeGrasslands Glasgow City Region Lorna Cole Pollinators Butterfly Conservation 🦋 Plantlife Scotland Planning Aid Scotland Central Scotland Green Network Much of East Kilbride was built on former agricultural land which escaped many modern farming herbicide practices. With the mowing regime reduced to once a year (in September), the re-emergence of flora such as broad-leaved helleborine (below) and bugle can already be seen

South Lanarkshire Council Councillor Kirsten Robb GCV Green Network ClydeGrasslands Glasgow City Region Lorna Cole Pollinators Butterfly Conservation 🦋 Plantlife Scotland Planning Aid Scotland Central Scotland Green Network Plantlife BC Glasgow & South-West Scotland 🐛🦋 SAC Consulting Gill Perkins Green Action Trust NatureScot Strathclyde NatureScot Scottish Environment LINK Scot Communities CAN This area will also sit within a Grassland #NatureNetwork providing connectivity for nature in a targeted way, & also some colour for local people! Look out for more to come from Really Wild East Kilbride & South Lanarkshire Council including an interactive webpage for grasslands 👏👏

Springhare Pollinators South Lanarkshire Council Councillor Kirsten Robb GCV Green Network ClydeGrasslands Glasgow City Region Lorna Cole Butterfly Conservation 🦋 Plantlife Scotland Planning Aid Scotland Central Scotland Green Network Springhare That is certainly the intention! For more about the overarching regional ClydeGrasslands project 👉twtr.to/sD6Mx More locally South Lanarkshire Council & Jaclyn have created a great blueprint for similar works in EK and beyond👍

Volunteers, ClydeGrasslands and the council are working to improve grassland habitats for pollinator species in EK, including in this ward (see map). In response to the loss of 97% of the UK's species rich grasslands since 1940’s + importance of pollinators for human survival.

The Green Network from Vision to Reality blog by Ally Corbett "we cut our teeth developing Green Network Strategies for some of the big regeneration initiatives of the time, Clyde Gateway, Clyde Waterfront and Ravenscraig" bit.ly/3xhObz2

Maukinhill grassland in #Greenock looking fantastic! These spectacular meadows were created after development work by GCV Green Network & partners Green Action Trust Inverclyde Council. Part of an emerging suite of 20 sites in a #NatureNetwork by the Clyde estuary in 2024 #nationalmeadowsday

Thanks again to @naturescot whose #NatureRestorationFund allowed our ClydeGrasslands mapping study to plan meadow creation in a strategic way across the Glasgow City Region #pollinators 🦋🐛 More👉 gcvgreennetwork.gov.uk/our-blueprint-…

Wonderful excuse to get out and connect with nature over the next few weeks. Find your local bog, meadow or grassland and take 15 minutes out to survey for moths and butterflies ClydeGrasslands ClydePeatlands

Marvelous meadows begin to bloom with ClydeGrasslands and more in our summer newsletter - out now! mailchi.mp/636d57da6333/s…

Excellent read here from the GCV Green Network team ... great work helping nature and people. 💮🐝🪲🦋

Really great to see these other habitat networks taking shape, some overlapping our developing woodland habitat networks as part of the GCV Green Network's blueprint for Glasgow City Region ⬇️ #naturenetworks

In case you missed it, our summer newsletter is out now! ⬇️